Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 2 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 3 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 4 | There was a stack of timber being unloaded from the Dock and the wind threw that all over the place . |
| 5 | Fred Sedgwick , a teacher , captured this recently in an article describing a case conference he attended ( Guardian , 28 January 1989 ) . |
| 6 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 7 | When the two Highlanders stood , he sauntered up and touched each gently on the chest . |
| 8 | We observed this clearly in the Greater London and South-East England labour market for secretarial staff and in the South East England labour market for computer programmers and analysts . |
| 9 | Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote : |
| 10 | He carried a silver-topped malacca cane and he waved this vaguely in the direction of the strolling crowds all around them . |
| 11 | And I took that straight to the barracks , and they accepted it ! |
| 12 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 13 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 14 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 15 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 16 | Andrew Liney , Davern Lambert and Mark Stanley kept a tight hold in the middle of defence , and Simon Nice and Darren Miles gave little away on the flanks . |
| 17 | Vocalist Rob gave little away in the title department but if the tracks were from the forthcoming Ferment album then we 're in for a treat . |
| 18 | The problem is in fact that 's exa in fact I did that right at the start , right ? |
| 19 | However , after several years of poor livestock production , a record 24,500,000 head were reported in 1989 ; the government attributed this partly to a contract and leasing system introduced in 1988 [ see also p. 36704 ] , by which rural workers contracted to supply specified products for wages , with their collective or the state farm supplying cattle , implements , machinery and land . |
| 20 | One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house . |
| 21 | Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : ‘ We discussed this right at the beginning , and the parish council decided to retain it . |
| 22 | Thus , both before and after amendment the matters of complaint in Schedule 12 embraced some only of the services a society was authorised to provide and omitted both surveys and valuations of land and land services . |